The focus of my practice is in working primarily with women to heal their relationship to food and their bodies. We work on emotional eating, cravings, energy and weight concerns often. From this work, I have developed my own unique way of working with clients that is part diet related, part nutrition related and a
Releasing the Emotions That Contribute to Binge Eating
Sometimes binge eating is a coping strategy that develops in order to numb difficult or painful emotions. As a strategy, it can certainly work for a while in terms of “numbing out” difficult or painful emotions, but the consequences are often low self esteem as well as weight gain and a sense of feeling out
How Focusing on Dieting Can Keep Us Stuck
Every day I talk to women (and I used to be one who did this too) who feel compelled to constantly diet to lose weight or to control their out of control feeling with food. There is a push-pull relationship that develops, an all or nothing kind of view. It is incredibly frustrating, defeating,
What’s Love Got To Do With It? How Body Image, Weight and Self Love Connect.
What do we do when we have been through enough trauma in childhood and have created a need for a coping mechanism like food to deal with all the unresolved feelings and trauma? What is one of the biggest common denominators for so many of us? We think somehow we must have deserved to be
Healing the Heart Of Emotional Eating & Chronic Dieting
I work with many women to heal food addiction, chronic dieting, emotional eating, out of control sugar cravings and the overwhelming sense of needing to be “perfect” both in their bodies, and in their outer world as well. Of course, I too have been that woman. (You can read my bio at eatlikeagoddes.com). I sometimes
Tapping into beauty
Article: The Beauty Wars and One Way to Find Peace Halloween…. it begins the long slide into the holiday season. Next is Thanksgiving, then comes Christmas and New Years. A lot of opportunities for socializing. This is fun and also terrible for many of my clients and women I know. There will be a
When the quest for weight loss can make you GAIN weight & keep you miserable
Losing weight is often all about losing the same weight over and over again. The cycle of taking it off and putting it back on is the real problem for so many. Why is this? Is it possible that the quest for weight loss in itself can not only make you fat but keep you
How to heal emotional eating, food addiction, chronic dieting and body image issues
I recently wrote an article for EFTFree.net, an extensive blog for EFT-Emotional Freedom Technique. It is titled: Healing The Heart of Food Addiction, Chronic Dieting & Emotional Eating. You can read it by clicking here. I discuss working with a client to heal her frustration and inability to stop the yo-yo cycle she was in
Have you heard about this?
I recently discovered something amazing that I want to share with you. It is automatic writing. Maybe you have heard of it? I have used this technique many times in the past three years since my mother died because it made me feel good. I didn’t call it automatic writing back when I first began
How does helping other women help ourselves?
I am a strong advocate of human rights and have been very distressed about the situation of women in developing countries and the sex trade, human trafficking, forced prostitution and other heinous crimes against women and children. One of the things that Nicholas Kristof points out in his book, Half The Sky, is that significant